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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1988
Barry G DeBoer, Georgetown, MA (US);
Sharon B Rutfield, Chelmsford, MA (US);
GTE Products Corporation, Danvers, MA (US);
Abstract
An improved mercury vapor discharge lamp is disclosed. The lamp of the present invention includes an envelope and a selectively reflecting silicon dioxide layer on at least a portion of the inner surface of the envelope. The lamp further includes a phosphor coating disposed on the selectively reflecting layer. The silicon dioxide layer has a coating weight of from about 0.1 to about 4 mg/cm.sup.2. The selectively reflecting layer comprises at least about 80 weight percent silica having a primary particle size from about 5 to about 100 nm with at least about 50 weight percent of the silica having a primary particle size from about 17 to about 80 nm.